Goodbye, Fedora

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:25 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>> I can tell you the library in question was libcom_err, and I think I
>> deleted it when removing e2fsprogs-libs to get around a file conflict.
>> But with rpm not working I couldn't reinstall the library. 
> 
> So you manually removed a critical system library and wondered why
> things broke? Have you ever tried randomly deleting .dll files in
> Windows XP?
> 
> Richard.
> 
Actually, this is probably a silly example, since XP has the 
silly-admin-avoidance-system (or whatever it's called) that would 
automatically restore vital .dll files upon deletion.

/Thomas